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Anonymous
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8 years ago
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What is the Export data row count limit for Power BI Report Server?

We seem to be limited to exporting 30,000 rows of data with Power BI Report Server, but we can export 150,000 rows in Power BI Service.  Is there an official row limitation for Report Server and is a...
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  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
    8 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    After confirmation from PG internally, we can only export data to .csv currently. And maximum number of rows that can be exported .csv is 30,000.

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu

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Rookarumba
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8 years ago

Hi v-qiuyu-msft, 

 

Is there a solution to this yet? Our organization is using PowerBI Report Server and the limitation of 30k, is a huge disappointment.

 

Anonymous, 

May i know what is your work around, cos my current work around is simple create a raw data set on Excel for my end user 

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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Rookarumba, our forced workaround is to reduce the data size by filtering the time period (i.e. date field) or other slicers and then to perform multiple report data exports, then pasting the .csv data together in Excel.  Not much of a workaround -- just a lot of extra work and wasted time.  The 30k row data export limit also applies to Power BI Desktop (optimized for Report Server).  This limitation means that our own data is essentially trapped by the tool.

 

An additional problem is that since PBIRS does not support exporting the "Underlying data", I have to include a separate Table visual on every report page that includes all the fields in our dataset so that we can get all fields upon export.  I make these table visuals very small so that only the assigned title, Export Table, appears.   

 

  • Rookarumba's avatar
    Rookarumba
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    8 years ago

    That is another way to look at it.

     

    Basically what I did is, I extracted the entire raw data after some processing and load it onto an Excel sheet and asked the user the work on those file and use PowerBI as a visual :(

     

    This is really a huge shortfall and bad for everyone that is using PowerBI Report Server or the team that build it :(

    • oranimo's avatar
      oranimo
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      8 years ago
      Note that in latest versiion of PBIRS March 2018, Export data to csv does not work at all from the web portal. It only work from the desktop application optimized for PBIRS March 2018, but fails once the file is successfuly uploaded to the web portal. Please check and update on a fix. If anyone else noticed the same bug then please report it here.
      • SaphireRose's avatar
        SaphireRose
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        8 years ago

        I also can't export data from the Power BI Report Server March 2018 version. I click on the Elipses, select "Export data", and then...nothing....